He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is by bribing, not so often by being bribed, that wicked politicians bring ruin on mankind. Avarice is a rival to… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Surely the church is a place where one day's truce ought to be allowed to the dissensions and animosities of mankind. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Refined policy ever has been the parent of confusion, and ever will be so as long as the world endures. Plain good… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The introduction of Christianity, which, under whatever form, always confers such inestimable benefits on mankind, soon made a sensible change in these… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Men are qualified for civil liberties in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites: in proportion as… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
As mankind becomes more enlightened to know their real interests, they will esteem the value of agriculture; they will find it in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In a democracy the majority of citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority...and that oppression of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
To be attached to the subdivision, to love the little platoon we belong to in society, is the first principle (the germ… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
I find along with many virtues in my countrymen there is a jealousy, a soreness, and readiness to take offence, as if… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Many of the greatest tyrants on the records of history have begun their reigns in the fairest manner. But the truth is, this unnatural… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Wise men will apply their remedies to vices, not to names; to the causes of evil which are permanent, not to the occasional organs… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“A man full of warm, speculative benevolence may wish his society otherwise constituted than he finds it; but a good patriot, and a true… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The great must submit to the dominion of prudence and of virtue, or none will long submit to the dominion of thegreat. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
What is it we all seek for in an election? To answer its real purposes, you must first possess the means of knowing the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Society is indeed a contract. It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
